Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatizatio

Ostrom first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions.

In the 1970s, the accepted environmental thinking was that overpopulation was destroying the earth. Prominent economists and environmentalists agreed that the o

"Knowledge commons" describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data,